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 * What is your definition of poetry/poems?**

**Frost: “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”**

**Poe: (A poem is) “… the rhythmical creation of beauty.”**

**Coleridge: “. . . the best words in the best order.”** = =

**Hopkins****: “speech framed. . . to be heard for its own sake and interest even over and above its interest of meaning.”**

**Macaulay: “the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of color.”**

**Deutsch: “the art which uses words as both speech and song to reveal the realities that the senses record,**  **the feelings salute, the mind perceives, and the shaping imagination orders.”**

**Wordsworth: “Poetry is emotion. . . recollected in tranquility.”**

**Journal Writing:**  ** How would you define the term poetry? You can pick one of the above quotes and comment briefly **  ** OR write your own response. **

**Concrete poems:**
Definition: A concrete poem is one that takes the shape of the object it describes. This is different from a Shape poem, in that a Shape poem does NOT have to take the shape of the object it describes.
 * [|Examples from Poetrysoup.com]**

**Metaphors in Poetry:**

 * Warm up - journal writing (Personal Metaphor exercise)**
 * If I were a**

===Emily Dickinson's [|"Hope is the Thing with Feathers"] [|"Hope ..." with words]===